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My mother is exactly the type of tourist they should want: wealthy, well travelled, loves eating out, always stays in lovely hotels, enjoys shopping and high quality trips. But can she work a smartphone? Not a chance. Different generation.

No, it’s realism day

absolutely agree. We have left the uk already !

That’s a great statistic. Probably used figures from roads that had previously had roadworks on them. When the roadworks are gone, traffic flow speeds up. But on a more serious note, it did always look like a lot of the traffic was created by manual switching of traffic lights by individual police boxes with no automatically coordination with the next set of lights down the road, so any technology to improve this is welcome. London fiddled the statistics with the introduction of the congestion charge by the way. They increased the amount of time given to pedestrians to cross every junction, therefore keeping traffic at red lights for longer, for more than a year before the charge was introduced, which created almost gridlock. ”Look at the terrible traffic” then introduce the charge, reset the lights and as if by magic, traffic improves ”Look at the improved traffic flow because of the congestion charge” I don’t trust any of them.

Lammy is an idiot. The grooming gangs were nearly all Pakistani. So call it out and deal with the issue, you can’t just say that stating the origin of the gangs is racist. if you don’t understand the cause of the problem, then you will never fix it. Left wing madness sadly.

Why was no one blowing a whistle as they took the injured off the boat in the second video? it’s not a crash in thailand without someone blowing a whistle

Bit harsh with all the development going on and losing their natural habitat?

As I understand it, bathing elephants was brought in as a result of people saying that riding them was cruel. the problem is that elephants are hugely expensive to keep, and since logging has been banned, they now have no work. If they aren’t used for tourism purposes then how to pay for their upkeep? The option is to cull them - which is horrible.

Have you tried going into the hotel and having a polite word with the manager? Plenty of hotels have managers who may understand that this is not great to for their guests or local residents and make sure its not so early again. It’s worth talking to them without an emotion.

Nope. You can think what you like. i double checked with BA and Bangkok Airways. BA have no agreement to check luggage through on other airlines in Thailand. They may do in future, but as of now, they do not.

Too many IO’s employed to check passports manually to be replaced by electronic gates. Much slower and more inefficient system to use humans than machines - keeping a huge number of people employed. Also can only imagine that rather than buying a system off the shelf that is already used in other countries, here they will try and build their own system that inevitably doesn’t work as well. As an example, I have online banking apps on my phone from Indonesia, HK, UK, Dubai and Thailand. Guess which is the worst one out of the bunch? 🤣 All good fun and games !

The guilty parties should be banned from driving for a minimum of one year, and banned from carrying passengers for life.

Labour were voted in, not because of their policies (which they gave very little detail on pre election), but because everyone was sick of the Conservatives and their constant squabbling and poor decisions. Now that Labour have set out their stall, and clearly lied saying they wouldn’t raise taxes for “working people” - which is basically anyone with a job - with the largest tax burden in history, people have realised what they have elected. Farage has done a great job of stepping into the void, promising to deal with the illegal boat crossings, which is a subject that is clearly of great concern to the average man in the street.

this is NOT true for BA on the LGW to BKK flight as BA have no agreement with airlines in thailand to send luggage to final destination, even if you book the flights via BA and you have a BA flight number and boarding pass. You MUST collect your luggage in BKK and check it in again.

Ok, having just flown from LGW to BKK and on to KBV, I can answer this one for sure. BA do NOT have onward agreements with other airlines in thailand to check baggage through to final destination, even if the onward journey is sold as. BA ticket. so what you need to do is clear immigration and collect your luggage at BKK, go up to Departures and check it in again with the next airline, even if you already have your boarding pass. you will NOT be able to hand carry a bottle of whiskey through to your onward flight, so when you collect your case at BKK you can put the bottle inside checked baggage and then check it in. this is 100% certain, as we had to go through this just last week. have a great trip with your family !

Great story !

The Chinese are doing their best to crush western manufacturers with cut price products built with cheap labour and government ownership / subsidies. everyone buying these products are supporting the Expansionist plans of the CCP. they look great and feel lovely inside these day, but when all these electronic components fail, there won’t be a chance in hell of them getting repaired in thailand. after a few years, the likes of Honda, Toyota etc will pull out (as Ford has largely done) and then we are stuck with Chinese manufacturers - and the prices will sky rocket. So that’s the plan, it’s what the Chinese government do. Only you can decide your next purchase.

Short hair brushed forwards into a fringe, white linen hoodie, eyes too close together and an angry scowl 🤣

one to distribute envelopes?

that’s a whole different matter ! I won’t even go there, it’s his risk if he loses it.

Thank you so much, gents, I will stop worrying on his behalf. thanks again

Thank you, I guess he is the “owner” hence why I was asking.

yes I should have said. Australia mainly but travels for work I believe. Certainly outside of thailand. he just comes in and out using the 30 day stamp on arrival, no long term visa.

Hi all keen to ask your advice about one of my neighbours please. He is an Australian who has purchased a new build house from a developer by using a company with Thai nominee directors (to the best of my knowledge) just outside Krabi Town. He doesnt live in it full time but visits every couple of months for a few days or a week, we keep an eye on the house for him while he is away. was chatting to him the other day and he says he never fills in a TM30 when he stays at the house. I was surprised by this and wondered if there is any risk in doing this. He seemed unaware that he should be doing one. He asked if he stayed one night in a hotel on his arrival would this register him on the system, but would that just be for his first night? is there something he should be doing such as registering himself at the local police or immigration office on arrival, or is he ok to just carry on as he is? thanks for any words of wisdom.

As you are diabetic, is your blood sugar under control with those meds? My mother is diabetic and I look after her, once we got her blood sugar under control, a lot of other issues cleared up. i am no expert but just a thought?